controlling headless pc - was: [Gllug] OT - general advice required on possible home setup

[John Hearns]

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 17:02, Pavel Bradut Boghita wrote:

> 
> I decided to start with a pentium machine being set up as an ftp server (to 
> back up a database from the main machine). From looking on the net I 
> understand that it is possible to use openssh to do even remote os 
> installation on headless pc's. 

By the way Pavel, you have brought up an important point.
Well - important to people building clusters :-)
The PC architecture does not permit true 'headless' operation-
machines will always need a graphics card of some sort in them to
operate.

Clusters tend to use either the built in graphics on the motherboard,
or a cheap graphics card. 

What I have said is not entirely true of course - I've heard that
some Tyan motherboards now allow operation over the serial port,
without needing graphics to boot.



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